[RESOLVED] child swf with component loaded in to parent swf

[cmay@coke]

I have an elearning course, a .swf, that loads multiple .swfs as the user progresses through the course. At the end, there is a quiz.

The quiz.swf uses the radiobutton component. I have developed some custom skins to use on the radiobutton component. I have figured out that:

1. I have to add an instance of a radiobutton in the main .swf for the radiobuttons in the quiz .swf to show.
2. I have to copy the radiobutton intance from the quiz swf library to the main swf library if I want my custom skins to show in the quiz swf

While, this works fine. It is not practical. I want the quiz.swf to more modular. So I can pop it in to any course and not have to go back in and add the radiobutton skins to each course.

Does anyone know of a way around this?

Thanks!

[cancerinform]

The skins are part of the component. Unless you create a new RadioButton component and use the extension manager to import it into Flash you will have to manually handle the component.

[cmay@coke]

Actually I found a way to do it. I duplicated all the RadioButton SKin MCs. Did my modifications to those MCs. Then I used the following code during the RB creation in AS:

radio1.setStyle("disabledIcon", cRB_disabledIcon);
                radio1.setStyle("downIcon", cRB_downIcon);
                radio1.setStyle("overIcon", cRB_overIcon);
                radio1.setStyle("selectedDisabledIcon", cRB_selectedDisabledIcon);
                radio1.setStyle("selectedDownIcon", cRB_selectedDownIcon);
                radio1.setStyle("selectedIcon", cRB_selectedIcon);
                radio1.setStyle("selectedOverIcon", cRB_selectedOverIcon);
                radio1.setStyle("selectedUpIcon", cRB_selectedUpIcon);
                radio1.setStyle("upIcon", cRB_upIcon); 

And voila! The radiobutton skin is not pulling from the main swf instance, but from the specific skin I want.

Now I can pop the quiz swf in any course and it will keep its look and feel.